Re: Phenomena
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 2, 2000, 20:58 |
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At 3:06 am -0800 2/3/00, Barry Garcia wrote:
>I dont know a better term for this, but how do you all say things like
>"it's raining" or "it's dripping" without an actual specified agent to do
>that action?
>
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>Rain - isáw
>to rain - isáw'an
>it was raining - iiresáw'an (iisáwan)
>it's raining - isonreáw'an (isonáwan)
>it will rain - isunreisáw'an (isunisáwan)
>it could rain - isangreáw'an (isangáwan)
Jespersen's Novial did this simply by using a verb with no subject, thus:
pluve (noun) = rain.
(tu) pluva - to rain
pluvad - it rained, it was raining
pluva - it is raining
sal pluva - it will rain
povud pluva - it could rain
etc.
Ray.
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